2. MAIN TASK- SHORT FILM
• We will be colour grading most of our shots especially the scenes were the effects
of the virus are taking over Ryan. This will help the film to go into its psychological
horror due to it being a hybrid genre. For the interior scenes were most of the
dialogue takes place between Ryan and Jane, we will use the colour grading to
make it look colder and have more of science look to it by manipulating the blue
highlights and shadows. For the virus effect scenes we will use the colour grading
to make it have a darker feel as the camera picked up a lot more light than we
expected.
• As the start of the film goes straight into action we have decided to use visuals of
static from a TV and will include a high pitched sound over the top of it for a few
seconds so that it isn’t so sudden and in your face. We will then have the ‘3
stages’ part over it then it will go to the starting shot of Ryan in the hazmat suit.
3. MAIN TASK- CONTINUED
• At 00:30 Ryan turns around suddenly, however we didn’t add any sound or
visual to suggest why he did this, so we will as in a sound effect of a twig
snapping so that the audience knows why he does it and this shows them his
anxiety and fear.
• We believe that we should put the ‘nausea’ symptom on a cut as this would
shows connotations of this through the editing so we put it on the shot of him
missing the slug and we edited the shots so that it cuts straight to him on his
knees to make it more fast paced.
• As we want to cut down the time of the film we will cut the beginning of the shot
from 01:27 to 01:34
• At the start where we see them both walking into the building 01:57 to 02:29, we
will reduce the sound as the ambient noise is too loud due to the hazmat suits.
• The shot at 02:29 will need the audio changed as there is a click at the start
which needs to go.
• The shot at 02:39-02:40 we will have to extend the shot as we cut off part of
Ryan’s dialogue and the start of Jane’s.
4. MAIN TASK- CONTINUED
• The shot at 2:45-2:56 will need to be re-shot as the camera goes in and out of focus too much
and this loses continuity and attention of the audience, as it is too static. So instead we will
change it to a medium close up shot reverse shot. So the shot where Ryan says ‘damn it..’ this
will be sound bridged of her looking through the microscope, then it will cut to his reaction then
cut again to her when she stands up as she says her dialogue.
• For the shot at 03:02 we will need to do a re-shoot as the cut is too sudden which loses the
continuity of the scene and parts of it go out of focus when it shouldn’t, also there is an
awkward shot of the back of him which doesn’t fit in. We will cut to him walking away from the
wall and him picking up the equipment. However we will keep the shot of him picking up the
equipment then we would go to a medium shot of him standing up and noticing the rip in his
suit. We would then cut to the shot at 03:18
• For the shot at 03:22-03:25 the sound of the camera focusing can be heard so we will need to
take out that audio.
• For the shot at 03:31-03:34 the sound of the camera focusing can be heard again, so we will
take out that audio but also add in a faint high pitched white noise to suggest to the audience
that it’s the build up for how the bang comes and also shows how it is in Ryan’s head alone.
5. MAIN TASK- CONTINUED
• For the shot at 03:34 we are gonna make the bang noise obviously non-diegetic to show that it is
just Ryan taking on the effects of the virus.
• For the shot at 05:19 when Ryan turns the lights on when in the hall, we will use colour grading to
make the image over-exposed so that the effects are full shown and will show the photo-sensitivity
he is feeling.
• The shot from 05:46-06:20 we will break up the shot, however we will use the same shots but will
edit it by cutting parts out to make it more fast paced and the appearance of it jump cutting.
• At 07:44 the dialogue is hard to hear so we will increase the volume to make it easier to
understand.
• At 08:31 part of Jane’s dialogue is cut off when the shot cuts and is repeated in the next shot. So
we will extend it and make a sound bridge between the shots.
• For the part where Jane is leaning in with the knife we will cut it so that she doesn’t get so close to
still leave the audience questioning whether she does it. This would also shock the audience more.
• In the credits we got the names the wrong way round so we will switch them over and we will
change it to have the title at the top.
6. ANCILLARY TASK- POSTER
• As the image looks out of place being on a grey background, we will resize the focal
image and make it better integrated with the title so that we don’t need a title. We will
also extend the image at the bottom.
• As we have a bit of space we will increase the size of the title slightly.
• We got the institutional information the wrong way round so we will change it so that it
will read ‘distributor’ presents a ‘producer’ production ‘ evolved’.
• We will change our critic as he is not credible. We will use A. O. Scott as he is a
credible critic in short films.
• We will move the website details onto the right hand corner in line with the
certifications.
• As our film has now been made we believe that it actually fits in with a certification of
12A.
7. ANCILLARY TASK- RADIO ADVERT
• We believe that the voiceover that Josh did is not suitable to our film and
audience due to having too much of a high pitched voice and his tone isn’t
fitting with the film. So we will re-do it with an older voice actor. We will also
change the script as it is a bit too long, so we will start with ‘the most
unnerving..’ and we will replace disequilibrium with ‘short’ as it is too
theoretical.
• We will replace the clip at 00:30 as it is hard to understand and isn’t as
loud compared to the voiceover.
• The background bed ends before josh’s voiceover so we will extend it and
also we are changing josh’s voiceover for the information part as well to
keep the tone the same.
